Manson Follower Gains Hearing

U.S. & LATIN AMERICA - The Nation - In Brief

April 28, 2002

LOS ANGELES -- Leslie Van Houten, an accomplice of Charles Manson, will get a court hearing in May in her bid to be freed from prison. Van Houten, 52, was a member of the cultlike Manson "family" that went on a two-day killing spree in Los Angeles in August 1969. Van Houten had long been viewed as the least culpable of the group. Manson, 67, was denied parole for the 10th time Wednesday.